What films influenced The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant?

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

Year1972

CountryGermany

DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder

MovementNew German Cinema

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I have seen all the films by Douglas Sirk. They are magnificent… In them, I have learned to recognise that love is the best, most manipulative, and most effective instrument of social repression… My films Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Martha, and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant are melodramas, and in them I tried to incorporate what I learned from Sirk.

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Films it influenced

Hable con ella 2002 · Pedro Almodóvar Talk to Her 2002 · Pedro Almodóvar Sitcom 1998 · François Ozon

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